PORTFOLIO

I am a professional freelance writer, published poet, and contributing writer for SF Station.

Please email me at alexandra [dot] naughton [at] gmail [dot] com for more information. Serious inquiries only, please.

Publications

• Self-published literary magazine
• Be About It

• Print
• Out Of Our
• Concrete
• Fuselit

• Web
• Alt Lit Press: "When I'm writing about Billy Corgan..." (May 2013)
• Metazen: "Phone Sex Notes" (April 2013)
• Guerrilla Graffiti Magazine: "The Apocalypse Already Happened..." (March 2013)
• Muni Diaries: "Just Another Day on the N Judah" (March 2013)
• CBS Chicago, Poem The News: "Go run on dunkin" (March 2013)
• Thousand Shades of Gray: "Three Love Poems for a Dead Person" (January 2013)
• Internet Poetry: "absentmindedness diagram - concrete poem" (December 2012)
• SF Station (all articles, August 2012 - present)
• SF Indie Fashion (all articles, September 2011 - January 2012)
• Life in Labels: "On Being Ginger" (September 2011)
• San Francisco Examiner (June 2010) 

Interviews / Performances

• Quiet Lightning: "An Empty Tin Can"
• Out of Our Magazine release party: "Dream Home"
• SF Weekly: "Alexandra Naughton on Cultivating a Lit Community and Billy Corgan Time-Travel"
• Indie Reader: "Bay Area Sell Out"

Academic Achievements

• Scholarship from Temple University, 2003 - 2007
• Temple University's Dean's List, 2003 - 2007
• High School Honor Roll, 1999-2003

Education

• 2007, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., B.A. in English Literature and Writing Certificate (Cum Laude)
• 2005-2006, Temple University Study Abroad, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
• 2003, Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa., Diploma and B.A. (Central High School in Philadelphia is the second-oldest public high-school in the United States, and is among a select few that may confer a B.A. upon graduates.)

Interests
Modernist literature, politics, economics, environmental issues, popular culture, music, and fashion.